Hey Everyone!

When opportunity knocks, of course you should answer! That is exactly why now is the perfect time to sign up for an Agile course and broaden your knowledge of Agile development!

Hello Everyone,

There are a few courses coming up that still have availability, but it won't last for long! Registration is filling quickly as their dates grow nearer, so don't hesitate, sign up to expand you Agile Knowledge-base today!

Agile Project Management

Date: 07/17/08- 07/18/08 Location: Boulder, CO Trainer: Jochen Krebs with Incrementor

To register click here                                                                            

Course Overview

This introductory course consists of two major parts, an in-depth coverage of iterative-incremental (agile) project management, followed by an introduction of common agile project management practices.

First, the participants will learn the details of iterative-incremental development from a project manager's perspective. In multiple hands-on exercises, the students will practice estimating effort and time, planning and executing iterations, reviewing progress through retrospectives and managing risks. Each of these practices is applied in the unique context of how agility impacts project management. Additionally, the students will learn how agile project management benefits other stakeholders, including the impact of agility on return of investment, customer satisfaction, team morale, quality and many others. During the session, the instructor will highlight and explain common mistakes and misunderstandings of agile project management.

Second, this course will introduce popular agile project management techniques and give an overview of the differences, advantages and disadvantages always keeping the project manager in mind.

After this course, every participant will be equipped with fundamental skills about iterative-incremental project management as well as enough information to make a sound decision and pull the best agile project management practice out of the toolkit.

Certified ScrumMaster Training with Rally Software

Date: 06/18/08- 06/19/2008 Location: Boulder, CO Trainer: Tamara Sulaiman with Rally Software

Date: 07/29/08- 07/30/08 Location: Boulder, CO Trainer Jean Tabaka with Rally Software

To register click here

Course Overview

This two-day ScrumMaster certification course provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile project management methodologies, Scrum is a simple software management technique that has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost immediately.

Delivered by Certified ScrumMaster trainers, this course shares time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more!

On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs.

Important Note: Certification and membership to the Scrum Alliance is not available through the "Agile Program Management with Scrum" courses.

For more information and to register, please view our course listings
at http://www.agileuniversity.org/index.jsp

Thanks,

Heather Kuta

info@...

Agile University

Agile Denver will meet one week early this month, given the Memorial Day
holiday falling on the fourth Monday. We will instead meet on Monday,
May 19th with guest speaker Neal Ford from ThoughtWorks. Neal will
present "Code Metrics & Analysis for Agile Projects".

What does code + methodology have to do with one another? Everything!
Agile projects focus on delivering working code, and tools exist to
allow you to verify some quality metrics for your code. This session is
a survey of tools and metrics that allow you to determine the quality of
your code and strategies to "wire it" into your agile project.

Agile projects focus on delivering code. The responsibility for the
quality of that code lies with developers. Yet most developers have a
poor sense of how to gauge the quality of code, both during development
and forensically. This talk lives on the boundary between what is
important in agile projects and ways to verify code quality. It is both
a survey of tools and metrics and strategies for proactively applying
these techniques to ongoing projects. I talk about the Hawthorne effect,
analysis tools (both byte and source code), useful metrics, tools for
generating metrics, and how to analyze raw data into actionable tasks.

Session Topics:

      * The Hawthorne Effect
      * How Agility and Metrics Feed Each Other
      * Analysis Tools: FindBugs and PMD/CPD
      * Testing Metrics
      * Cyclomatic Complexity
      * Chidamber and Kemerer Object-oriented Metrics
      * JDepend
      * Code Change Risk Analyzer and Predictor for Java
      * Panopticode
      * Tools

As always, our monthly meetings are free to attend and open to local
software professionals, students and faculty. Feel free to pass this
announcement along to your colleagues.

As always, our monthly meetings are free to attend and open to local
software professionals, students and faculty. Feel free to pass this
announcement along to your colleagues.

AGENDA

5:00 - 6:00 PM  Refreshments, networking and announcements
6:00 - 7:30 PM  Neal Ford Presentation

SPEAKER

Neal Ford is an Application Architect for ThoughtWorks. He is an
architect, designer, and developer of applications, instructional
materials, magazine articles, and video/DVD presentations. Neal is also
the author of Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques
(Prentice Hall PTR, 1996), JBuilder 3 Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 1999),
and Art of Java Web Development (Manning, 2003). His language
proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Object Pascal, C++, and C.
Neal's primary consulting focus is the design and construction of
large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally
acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 30 developer conferences worldwide.

SPONSORS

The April 2008 meeting sponsor is The No Fluff Just Stuff Software
Symposium Series.

The No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Series is designed to cover
the latest in trends, best practices, and newest developments in
Enterprise Java, Java/Groovy, ESB/SOA, Ajax, Web Services, Agility, and
Architecture. Our commitment is to provide the very best in terms of
speaker quality and overall conference experience.

Their upcoming Agile ITX event will take place June 26 - 28, 2008 in
Reston, Virginia. The central theme of Agile ITX is to help your team
consistently deliver better software. We'll focus on the entire software
development life cycle, from requirements management to test automation
to software process. You'll learn how to Develop in Iterations,
Collaborate with Customers, and Respond to Change. Software is a
difficult field with high rates of failure. Our world-class speakers
will help you implement best practices, deal with persistent problems,
and recognize opportunities to improve your existing practices.

Our on campus sponsor is The Games Club, a tri-institutional (MSCD, UCD,
and CCD) club that seeks to unite the campus and provide a closer-knit
college community to Auraria Campus. The Funds raised by the games club
through sponsorship of events like Agile Denver is used to help fund
scholarships to club members and to encourage participation in the
Homeward Bound project.

DIRECTIONS

The meeting will be held in the Tivoli Student Union (TV) building, in
Room 261 (Multicultural Lounge).

The Tivoli is located on the Auraria Campus, within walking distance of
Downtown Denver via Larimer Street crossing Speer. You can reach the
campus from the I-25 south Colfax or Speer exits.

Please review or print out the parking map for reference:

http://www.ahec.edu/parking/ParkingMap07color.jpg

Parking on site costs $5 to attendees of our event and there should be
parking available in the lots off of Auraria Parkway and Ninth Street.
Be sure to mention that you are attending an on campus event otherwise
they might assume you are there for a sports event.

A G I L E  D E N V E R
www.agiledenver.org

Agile Denver will meet on Monday, April 28th with guest speaker Richard
Lawrence who will present "Stealth Agile".

What do you when you don't have the power to change your non-agile
organization to adopt agile?

How do you carve out space to try agile safely?

What agile practices can you introduce in what scenarios?

How do you interface with the rest of the organization in a familiar way?

What are the risks of adopting agile in this way and how to you mitigate
them?

Agile at Avanade started out as a few practices scattered on traditional
projects, grew into one experimental agile project that reported to the
rest of organization in the traditional way, and eventually got to where
we are today with a number of agile projects and growing management
acceptance. This session will draw lessons from our experience for you
can introduce agile under-the-radar in your organization.

As always, our monthly meetings are free to attend and open to local
software professionals, students and faculty. Feel free to pass this
announcement along to your colleagues.

AGENDA

5:00 - 6:00 PM  Refreshments, networking and announcements
6:00 - 7:30 PM  Richard Lawrence Presentation

SPEAKER

Richard Lawrence is Solutions Manager for Agile Delivery at Avanade,
Microsoft and Accenture's joint venture. He has been practicing agile
software development with XP, Scrum, and Lean since 2001 and is
passionate about helping software teams work more productively and more
sanely at the same time. Richard is a Certified Scrum Coach and was a
speaker at the Agile 2006 and Agile 2007 conferences.

SPONSORS

The April 2008 meeting sponsor is Mountain Goat Software. See
http://mountaingoatsoftware.com for more information about this
Colorado-based process and project management consultancy and training
firm. Offering Certified ScrumMaster, agile estimating and planning,
user story, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and other courses to help
companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques
in order to build extremely high performance development organizations.

Mountain Goat has a Scrum Certified Product Owner class coming up in
Boulder on May 12-13 taught by Ken Schwaber and Mike Cohn. See
http://mountaingoatsoftware.com/training/73-certified-product-owner for
more information.

Our on campus sponsor is The Games Club, a tri-institutional (MSCD, UCD,

and CCD) club that seeks to unite the campus and provide a closer-knit
college community to Auraria Campus. The Funds raised by the games club
through sponsorship of events like Agile Denver is used to help fund
scholarships to club members and to encourage participation in the
Homeward Bound project.

DIRECTIONS

The meeting will be held in the Tivoli Student Union (TV) building, in
Room 320AB on the third floor.

The Tivoli is located on the Auraria Campus, within walking distance of
Downtown Denver via Larimer Street crossing Speer. You can reach the
campus from the I-25 south Colfax or Speer exits.

Please review or print out the parking map for reference:

http://www.ahec.edu/parking/ParkingMap07color.jpg

Parking on site costs $5 to attendees of our event and there should be
parking available in the lots off of Auraria Parkway and Ninth Street.
Be sure to mention that you are attending an on campus event otherwise
they might assume you are there for a sports event.

A G I L E  D E N V E R
www.agiledenver.org

OPERATIONS ENGINEER

Rally Software Development (www.rallydev.com) located in Boulder,
Colorado is a dynamic, growing company that provides software-driven
enterprises with the knowledge, coaching and tooling needed to
succeed with Agile development practices.

By joining our agile software development team, you will be a part of
a group building a collaborative platform for agile software teams of
all sizes. Enjoy all the benefits of working with the hottest
technologies in small, highly collaborative teams while we service
users in 20+ countries and 50% of the largest software development
firms in the world from a hosted platform.

Responsibilities include:
• Administrating, monitoring, and maintaining Rally's on-demand test
and production systems.
• Selecting, configuring, and maintaining state of the art computer
hardware that runs our on-demand systems.
• Performing Rally production system upgrades and patches in a
clustered environment.
• Assisting with production system security policies and audits.
• Performing scalability tests on different hardware and software
configurations.
• Assist in estimating product system capacities.
• Designing and implementing a world-wide caching strategy.
• Performance tuning the production hardware.
• Maintaining, configuring, and testing our disaster recovery site.
• Ability to configure networking technologies including but not
limited to: Firewalls, Routers, Switches (Vlans, port bonding, fail-
over redundancy).
• On call availability to service a highly redundant and reliable
production system.

Ideal candidates will have the following experience and attributes:
• Minimum of 5 years of operations experience.
• Operations experience with a J2EE architecture with RedHat, Centos,
JBoss, and Oracle 9i or 10g.
• Experience with a Redhat cluster with iSCSI SANs is a plus.
• Good technical problem solving skills.
• Good communication skills.
• Good Unix/Linux scripting skills.
• A detailed and methodical (bullet-proof) nature when executing
product system installations, migrations, maintenance, and upgrades.

Culture:
At Rally, we value teamwork, an ability to meet commitments, and
skill. Our company is comprised of people who are passionate about
the software industry and the success that implementing Agile
Development practices can bring our clients.

You will find Rally makes decisions through a highly creative and
collaborative process and our employees stand-up and contribute. As a
Boulder company, we strive to maintain a work/life balance and give
back to the community.

Rally was awarded one of the best places to work in Colorado, the
JOLT Award for product excellence from Software Development Magazine
and our Series B funding. We fielded five Boulder Peak Triathlon
relay teams and continually give back 1% of our time to the non-
profit community. Rally has also set aside 1% of its equity, upon
founding, as part of Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado.

We are recognized nationally as the best product in our category
(Jolt Awards 2006, 2007 and 2008), locally as the most innovative
product (IQ Awards) and as a top "Best Company to Work for in
Colorado" 2006 and 2007.

We are looking for those who share our passion and the desire to work
with the best and brightest. If it sounds like you might thrive in an
environment like this, please email your resume and cover letter to
jobs@....

Local candidate preferred.  No third parties.

Join our award winning team!
Jolt Award Winner 2006, 2007 & 2008 - Product Excellence
Locally Most Innovative Product (IQ Awards)
Top "Best Company to Work for in Colorado" 2006 & 2007

Software Engineer- Integrations Developer

***************************************

Rally Software Development (www.rallydev.com) located in Boulder, Colorado is a dynamic, growing company that provides software-driven enterprises with the knowledge, coaching and tooling needed to succeed with Agile development practices.

Rally has been investing heavily in creating integrations to third-party software lifecycle management tools and has created almost 20 integrations to date. In order to continue our momentum, we are interested in hiring an Integration Developer who has broad responsibilities for developing all types of integrations from legacy systems to Web 2.0 mashups using Ajax.

Responsibilities include: 

• Work with customers and product managers to define and scope integrations
• Build scalable connectors using Rally's Web Service interface
• Determine and build the automated testing strategy as well as the testing infrastructure for Rally's integrations
• Work with the Product Owner to define, estimate, and prioritize Stories
• Help sales engineers demonstrate and customers install integrations
• Help organize and gather feedback for alpha/beta releases with customers
• Create infrastructure for ongoing build and testing of integrations
• Work with new partners, new integrations, and new technology on a regular basis
• Work on projects from 3rd party legacy integrations to cutting edge integrations using Ajax & JSON

Ideal candidates will have the following experience and attributes:

• Experience with a couple of the following languages: Java, Javascript, Ruby, C#, VB, PERL, or PHP.
• Experience using XML, SOAP, REST, and/or JSON Web Services
• Possess superior problem solving skills with a proven ability to exercise sound judgment to solve complex issues
• Excellent communication skills
• Knowledge of source code management and automated build management tools
• Knowledge of Software Application Lifecycle Management tools such as defect tracking, testing, or requirements management
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and fluid environment
• Experience with Salesforce.com and the Force.com platform a plus
• Interest in working on many small/new projects at once
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• 3 + years previous software development experience preferred

Culture:

To coordinate four teams, we do pull-based release planning, lock our release train and make and meet our publicly, committed releases eight time per year. Our daily visibility is high with automated tests coverage, and immediate code quality reporting. Productive and skilled object-oriented developers who can collaborate do well in our environment.

The core values at Rally center on employees understanding their personal and professional goals and regularly making and meeting daily, iteration and release commitments. You will find Rally makes decisions through a highly creative and collaborative process and our employees stand-up and contribute. As a Boulder company, we strive to maintain a work/life balance and give back to the community.

In 2006, Rally was awarded one of the best places to work in Colorado, the JOLT Award for product excellence from Software Development Magazine and our Series B funding. We fielded five Boulder Peak Triathlon relay teams and continually give back 1% of our time to the non-profit community. Rally has also set aside 1% of its equity, upon founding, as part of Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado.

We are recognized nationally as the best product in our category (Jolt Award 2006 and 2007), locally as the most innovative product (IQ Awards) and as a top "Best Company to Work for in Colorado" 2006 and 2007.

We are looking for those who share our passion and the desire to work with the best and brightest. If it sounds like you might thrive in an environment like this, please email your resume and cover letter to jobs@....

Relocation available for highly qualified candidates!

No third parties.

Join our award winning team!

Jolt Award Winner 2006, 2007 & 2008 - Product Excellence

Locally Most Innovative Product (IQ Awards)

Top "Best Company to Work for in Colorado" 2006 & 2007

QA ENGINEER - Software
***************************

Rally Software Development (www.rallydev.com) located in Boulder,
Colorado is a dynamic, growing company that provides software-driven
enterprises with the knowledge, coaching and tooling needed to
succeed with Agile development practices.

What we're looking for: Rally is seeking a motivated QA Engineer with
an innate curiosity about how things work and the drive to improve
them. This is a key role on the engineering team helping to guide
development and define acceptance tests.

Responsibilities include:  Creating and implementing test acceptance
criteria, manual testing, recording defects, evaluating test data,
problem discovery, tracking and resolution in addition to ensuring a
high level of customer satisfaction by managing customer defects

Ideal candidates will have the following experience and attributes:
• Minimum of 3-5 years of QA experience is recommended.
• Experience testing web based applications using Internet Explorer
and/or FireFox.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical, and technical
troubleshooting skills.
• Working knowledge of software testing methodology.
• Strong team-orientated, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Willing to work in a dynamic development environment.
• Must be highly motivated, self-driven, and have the ability to work
efficiently with minimal supervision.
• Experience with Agile Software Development Methods desired.

Culture:
At Rally, we value teamwork, an ability to meet commitments, and
skill. Our company is comprised of people who are passionate about
the software industry and the success that implementing Agile
Development practices can bring our clients.

You will find Rally makes decisions through a highly creative and
collaborative process and our employees stand-up and contribute. As a
Boulder company, we strive to maintain a work/life balance and give
back to the community.

Rally was awarded one of the best places to work in Colorado, the
JOLT Award for product excellence from Software Development Magazine
and our Series B funding. We fielded five Boulder Peak Triathlon
relay teams and continually give back 1% of our time to the non-
profit community. Rally has also set aside 1% of its equity, upon
founding, as part of Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado.

We are recognized nationally as the best product in our category
(Jolt Awards 2006,  2007 and 2008), locally as the most innovative
product (IQ Awards) and as a top "Best Company to Work for in
Colorado" 2006 and 2007.

We are looking for those who share our passion and the desire to work
with the best and brightest. If it sounds like you might thrive in an
environment like this, please email your resume and cover letter to
jobs@....

Local candidate preferred.  No third parties.

Join our award winning team!
Jolt Award Winner 2006, 2007 & 2008 - Product Excellence
Locally Most Innovative Product (IQ Awards)
Top "Best Company to Work for in Colorado" 2006 & 2007

Software Engineer

***************************************

Rally Software Development (www.rallydev.com) located in Boulder, Colorado is a dynamic, growing company that provides software-driven enterprises with the knowledge, coaching and tooling needed to succeed with Agile development practices.

By joining our agile software development team, you will be a part of a group building a collaborative platform for agile software teams of all sizes. Enjoy all the benefits of working with the hottest technologies in small, highly collaborative teams while we service users in 20+ countries and 50% of the largest software development firms in the world from a hosted platform.

Responsibilities include:  Designing, developing and testing a rich browser based application.

Ideal candidates will have the following experience and attributes:

• Experience writing rich, browser based GUIs
• Java (will accept C# programmers who would like to do Java Web Application programming)
• Spring
• Servlet 2.0 Web-App development
• JavaScript (YUI or script.aculo.us a plus)
• AJAX
• O/R Mapping
• SQL and Relational database experience
• A history of successful delivery and career progression in software development.
• Prior experience building scalable solutions.
• The experience and skills to understand our entire scope of products and process.
• A track record of collaboratively designing, developing and testing database driven web applications.
• Mad foosball skills.

Culture:

To coordinate four teams, we do pull-based release planning, lock our release train and make and meet our publicly, committed releases eight time per year. Our daily visibility is high with automated tests coverage, and immediate code quality reporting. Productive and skilled object-oriented developers who can collaborate do well in our environment.

The core values at Rally center on employees understanding their personal and professional goals and regularly making and meeting daily, iteration and release commitments. You will find Rally makes decisions through a highly creative and collaborative process and our employees stand-up and contribute. As a Boulder company, we strive to maintain a work/life balance and give back to the community.

In 2006, Rally was awarded one of the best places to work in Colorado, the JOLT Award for product excellence from Software Development Magazine and our Series B funding. We fielded five Boulder Peak Triathlon relay teams and continually give back 1% of our time to the non-profit community. Rally has also set aside 1% of its equity, upon founding, as part of Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado.

We are recognized nationally as the best product in our category (Jolt Award 2006 and 2007), locally as the most innovative product (IQ Awards) and as a top "Best Company to Work for in Colorado" 2006 and 2007.

We are looking for those who share our passion and the desire to work with the best and brightest. If it sounds like you might thrive in an environment like this, please email your resume and cover letter to jobs@....

Relocation available for highly qualified candidates!

No third parties.

Join our award winning team!

Jolt Award Winner 2006, 2007 & 2008 - Product Excellence

Locally Most Innovative Product (IQ Awards)

Top "Best Company to Work for in Colorado" 2006 & 2007

Seems that google and virgin are forming virgle to explore mars in the
next 20 years.  Send in a video if you would like to be a part of the
project.

View the news on this at:
http://www.youtube.com/projectvirgle

-Shawn Arney
cosAgile Moderator

Hello Everyone,

Here is a listing of some Agile Courses that still have availability in Boulder. Although it is a bit of a drive, the classes will be worth the travelling. Sign up today, for registration tends to fill up quickly.

Product Owner Workshop: Maximizing Value Delivery via Agile Software Development

Date: 04/16/2008-04/17/2008 Location: Boulder, CO Trainer: Ronica Roth

To register click here          

Course Overview

This introductory course consists of two major parts, an in-depth coverage of iterative-incremental (agile) project management, followed by an introduction of common agile project management practices.

First, the participants will learn the details of iterative-incremental development from a project manager's perspective. In multiple hands-on exercises, the students will practice estimating effort and time, planning and executing iterations, reviewing progress through retrospectives and managing risks. Each of these practices is applied in the unique context of how agility impacts project management. Additionally, the students will learn how agile project management benefits other stakeholders, including the impact of agility on return of investment, customer satisfaction, team morale, quality and many others. During the session, the instructor will highlight and explain common mistakes and misunderstandings of agile project management.

Second, this course will introduce popular agile project management techniques and give an overview of the differences, advantages and disadvantages always keeping the project manager in mind.

After this course, every participant will be equipped with fundamental skills about iterative-incremental project management as well as enough information to make a sound decision and pull the best agile project management practice out of the toolkit.

For more information and to register, please view our course listings
at http://www.agileuniversity.org/index.jsp

Thanks,

Heather Kuta

info@...

Agile University

At Rally Software our developers are: highly motivated, passionate about learning, believe Agile is the best way to build software, involved in developing web applications, build products they will always be proud of, and thrive in a highly collaborative Agile environment. Rally has been investing heavily in creating integrations to third-party software lifecycle management tools and has created almost 20 integrations to date. In order to continue our momentum, we are interested in hiring an Integration Developer who has broad responsibilities for developing all types of integrations from legacy systems to Web 2.0 mashups using Ajax.

An initial set of responsibilities would include:

• Work with customers and product managers to define and scope integrations
• Build scalable connectors using Rally's Web Service interface
• Determine and build the automated testing strategy as well as the testing infrastructure for Rally's integrations
• Work with the Product Owner to define, estimate, and prioritize Stories
• Help sales engineers demonstrate and customers install integrations
• Help organize and gather feedback for alpha/beta releases with customers
• Create infrastructure for ongoing build and testing of integrations
• Work with new partners, new integrations, and new technology on a regular basis
• Work on projects from 3rd party legacy integrations to cutting edge integrations using Ajax & JSON

The ideal candidate will have the following experience and attributes:

• Experience with a couple of the following languages: Java, Javascript, Ruby, C#, VB, PERL, or PHP.
• Experience using XML, SOAP, REST, and/or JSON Web Services
• Possess superior problem solving skills with a proven ability to exercise sound judgment to solve complex issues
• Excellent communication skills
• Knowledge of source code management and automated build management tools
• Knowledge of Software Application Lifecycle Management tools such as defect tracking, testing, or requirements management
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and fluid environment
• Experience with Salesforce.com and the Force.com platform a plus
• Interest in working on many small/new projects at once
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• 3 + years previous software development experience preferred

Please email your resume to jobs@....

ENGAGEMENT MANAGER - Software

Rally Software Development (www.rallydev.com) located in Boulder, CO
is a dynamic, growing company that provides software-driven
enterprises with the knowledge, coaching and tooling needed to
succeed with Agile development practices.

Due to our success, we are seeking an experienced and motivated Agile
Development Consultant and Engagement Manager. An ideal candidate
would have experience and interest in extending skills in the
following areas.

Qualifications:
• Consulting background with process, change management with Agile
preferred- you will be working with multiple clients through on site
collaboration and remote support
• Coaching Agile project teams - bringing experience with methods
such as Scrum, XP, Lean, FDD, DSDM, or Crystal.
• Vendor and Engagement management experience - experience leading
consulting engagements, managing scope, time, cost, quality, risk,
and stakeholder expectations.
• Solutions selling experience - Identifying new areas of opportunity
and proposing potential solutions.
• Training experience - we develop our own collateral in close
partnership with leading experts in the agile community and deliver
training to customer teams.
• Experience in leading technical teams - coaching, teaching and
guiding people in the various roles in a project driven organization.
• Facilitation skills in leading planning meetings, reviews, and
retrospectives.
• Excellent presentation skills
• Willingness to travel 50%- we're a company that is expanding within
the US and beyond.
• 7 years or more experience in technology/software organizations.
• Certified ScrumMaster (Practitioner or Trainer), Certified
Facilitator, or equivalent are all pluses.

Locations: Anywhere in the continental US near a major airport.

Culture: At Rally, we value teamwork, an ability to meet commitments,
skill, and a successful track record. Our company is comprised of
people who are passionate about the software industry and the success
that implementing Agile Development practices can bring our clients.
We are looking for those who share our passion and the desire to work
with the best and brightest.

In our Professional Services organization we actively encourage
speaking engagements and participation in agile committees. Our
Coaches have been key-note speakers, organizers of agile conferences
and authors of articles and whitepapers.

We offer excellent compensation for proven performers, stock options
and generous benefits with an exceptional opportunity to grow. If you
are interested in being considered or would simply like more
information about what it's like to work here at Rally, one of our
coaches would be happy to discuss the possibilities. Please email
jobs@...

Rally Software Development located in Boulder, Colorado is a dynamic, start-up that provides software-driven enterprises a complete solution of knowledge, coaching and tooling to succeed with Agile, the next generation of development practices.Due to our success we are seeking the following individual to join our team.

Responsibilities

• Works as part of a high performance team to promptly identify, analyze and resolve customer inquiries, concerns, and issues
• Responds to customer requests regarding the Rally product and Agile methodologies
• Creates and delivers customer tool and methodology training
• Delivers Agile best practices coaching
• Advises customers on tool and methodology implementation
• Coordinates internal resources to ensure customer success
• Acts as a liaison between customers and product management to ensure customer issues are resolved
• Writes technical documentation
• Participates in projects to improve support capability and systems deployment

The ideal candidate will have the following experience and attributes:

• Possess superior problem solving skills with a proven ability to exercise sound judgment to solve complex issues, recognize business critical situations and escalate as needed
• 2 + years previous customer software support required, ideally supporting Web applications
• Interest in acquiring deep product and methodology expertise; experience with Software Development, Requirements Management and/or Agile methodologies a huge plus
• Understanding of TCP/IP
• Basic knowledge of FTP
• Ability to troubleshoot web browser technologies
• Java and .NET skills desired, understanding of Web Services with SOAP and/or REST
• Excellent presentation, demonstration and facilitation skills in leading meetings, trials and projects
• Experience with Linux and VMware a plus
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and fluid environment
• History of outstanding customer service and customer advocacy
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field a plus

At Rally we're looking for people who are passionate about the software industry and want to work with the best and brightest. We value teamwork, the ability to meet commitments as well as skill and in return offer an exceptional opportunity to grow. We strive for a healthy, productive work/life balance, while enjoying the opportunity to substantially contribute to the direction and success of a vibrant software business.

If this sounds like an environment in which you might thrive, please email resume to

Jolt Award Winner 2006, 2007 & 2008 - Product Excellence
Locally Most Innovative Product (IQ Awards)
Top "Best Company to Work for in Colorado" 2006 & 2007

Junior Software Engineer - Java Web Applications Developer

The core values at Rally center on employees understanding their
personal and professional goals and regularly making and meeting
daily, iteration and release commitments. You will find Rally makes
decisions through a highly creative and collaborative process and our
employees stand-up and contribute. As a Boulder company, we strive to
maintain a work/life balance and give back to the community.

At Rally Software our engineers are: highly motivated, passionate about learning, believe Agile is the best way to build software, think Java is great stuff, obsessed with the Web, involved in developing web applications or contributing to open source projects in their free time, building careers they will always be proud of, having fun without regret, developing a kick-*!% state of the art J2EE application, dreaming in objects, taking pride in their work, thriving in a highly collaborative Agile environment.

Here are just some of the technologies you will be using:

• HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript, Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI), JSP, JSTL
• Java, Object-to-Relational Mappings, Oracle RDBMS, Spring 2, Servlets, JBOSS
• JUnit, jMock
• SOAP, REST, JSON
• Rally Enterprise Agile Life Cycle Management Tool (Yes we eat our own dog food)
  

What do you think? - Interested in becoming one? jobs@...

Rally Software Development located in Boulder, Colorado is a dynamic, start-up that provides software-driven enterprises a complete solution of knowledge, coaching and tooling to succeed with Agile, the next generation of development practices.Due to our success we are seeking the following individual to join our team.

Responsibilities

• Works as part of a high performance team to promptly identify, analyze and resolve customer inquiries, concerns, and issues.
• Responds to customer requests regarding the Rally product and Agile methodologies.
• Creates and delivers customer tool and methodology training.
• Delivers Agile best practices coaching.
• Advises customers on tool and methodology implementation.
• Coordinates internal resources to ensure customer success.
• Acts as a liaison between customers and product management to ensure customer issues are resolved.
• Writes technical documentation.
• Participates in projects to improve support capability and systems deployment.

The ideal candidate will have the following experience and attributes:

• Possess superior problem solving skills with a proven ability to exercise sound judgment to solve complex issues, recognize business critical situations and escalate as needed.
• 2 + years previous customer software support required, ideally supporting Web applications.
• Interest in acquiring deep product and methodology expertise; experience with Software Development, Requirements Management and/or Agile methodologies a huge plus.
• Java and .NET skills desired, understanding of Web Services with SOAP and/or REST.
• Excellent presentation, demonstration and facilitation skills in leading meetings, trials and projects.
• Experience with VMware a plus.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and fluid environment.
• History of outstanding customer service and customer advocacy.
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field a plus.

At Rally we're looking for people who are passionate about the software industry and want to work with the best and brightest. We value teamwork, the ability to meet commitments as well as skill and in return offer an exceptional opportunity to grow. We strive for a healthy, productive work/life balance, while enjoying the opportunity to substantially contribute to the direction and success of a vibrant software business.

If this sounds like an environment in which you might thrive, please email resume to jobs@....

Join our award winning team!
Jolt Award Winner 2006 & 2007 - Best Product in our Category
Locally Most Innovative Product (IQ Awards)
Top "Best Company to Work for in Colorado" 2006 & 2007

Jolt Award Winner 2006, 2007 & 2008 - Product Excellence
Locally Most Innovative Product (IQ Awards)
Top "Best Company to Work for in Colorado" 2006 & 2007

RALLY SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (www.rallydev.com) located in Boulder,
Colorado is a dynamic, growing company that provides software-driven
enterprises with the knowledge, coaching and tooling needed to
succeed with Agile development practices.

By joining our agile software development team, you will be a part of
a group building a collaborative platform for agile software teams of
all sizes. Enjoy all the benefits of working with the hottest
technologies in small, highly collaborative teams while we service
users in 20+ countries and 50% of the largest software development
firms in the world from a hosted platform.

Responsibilities include:  Designing, developing and testing a rich
browser based application.

Ideal candidates will have experience in the following:
• Experience writing rich, browser based GUIs
• Java
• Spring
• Servlet 2.0 Web-App development
• JavaScript (YUI or script.aculo.us a plus)
• AJAX
• O/R Mapping
• SQL and Relational database experience
• A history of successful delivery and career progression in software
development.
• Prior experience building scalable solutions.
• The experience and skills to understand our entire scope of
products and process.
• A track record of collaboratively designing, developing and testing
database driven web applications.
• Mad foosball skills.

Culture:
To coordinate four teams, we do pull-based release planning, lock our
release train and make and meet our publicly, committed releases
eight time per year. Our daily visibility is high with automated
tests coverage, and immediate code quality reporting. Productive and
skilled object-oriented developers who can collaborate do well in our
environment.

The core values at Rally center on employees understanding their
personal and professional goals and regularly making and meeting
daily, iteration and release commitments. You will find Rally makes
decisions through a highly creative and collaborative process and our
employees stand-up and contribute. As a Boulder company, we strive to
maintain a work/life balance and give back to the community.

In 2006, Rally was awarded one of the best places to work in
Colorado, the JOLT Award for product excellence from Software
Development Magazine and our Series B funding. We fielded five
Boulder Peak Triathlon relay teams and continually give back 1% of
our time to the non-profit community. Rally has also set aside 1% of
its equity, upon founding, as part of Entrepreneurs Foundation of
Colorado.

We are recognized nationally as the best product in our category
(Jolt Award 2006 & 2007), locally as the most innovative product (IQ
Awards) and as a top "Best Company to Work for in Colorado" 2006 and
2007.

We are looking for those who share our passion and the desire to work
with the best and brightest. If it sounds like you might thrive in an
environment like this, please email your resume and cover letter to
jobs@....

Local candidate preferred.
No third parties.

Have a Beer on Us!

Passionate about Java, JavaScript and AJAX?

Interested in the latest in web application and SaaS technology?

Wonder what it's like to work in a truly agile environment with a
collaborative team?

If you're curious about our company, our environment, or just want to
share ideas with the Rally dev team, please join us for a casual
gathering, discussion,and a beer at the Southern Sun Brewery.

What: Rally Software Development, Engineering Event
Where: Southern Sun Brewery, 627 Broadway (at Table Mesa) in Boulder
When: February 28th, 6:00pm
For more information, contact Aparna@... or visit
www.rallydev.com/careers.jsp

The room listed on the Agile Denver website and November 2007 meeting
announcements is incorrect. Please note this change of building and room
number. The meeting will still be held at 6:00 PM tonight on the Auraria
Campus, across from Downtown Denver.

We will be meeting in the Plaza Building, Room "PL 213". The Plaza
building is just South of the Tivoli building, near the flagpole that
marks the center of this campus. The Plaza building (PL) also houses the
campus health center so you may see signs directing you to that.

Please review or print out this campus building and parking map for
reference:

      http://www.ahec.edu/parking/ParkingMap07color.jpg

Parking on site costs $4 to $5 to attendees of our event and there
should be parking available in the lots and parking structures off of
Auraria Parkway and Ninth or Seventh Street. The closest parking is in
the Tivoli Lot or the Parking and Transportation Centre (PTC). Be sure
to mention that you are attending an on campus event otherwise they
might assume you are there for a sports event.

My apologies for any confusion this may have caused. Full meeting
details are available at:

      http://agiledenver.org/2007NovMeeting.php

- Alex

Agile Denver will meet on Tuesday, November 13 at the Auraria Campus
near Downtown Denver. More details on the meeting location can be found
below. This will be our last meeting for 2007 and we are pleased to host
Mary Poppendieck who is in town for another event. Mary is the author of
two books on Lean Software Development, and will explore the role of
leadership in software development.

When you look around, there are a lot of leaders recommended for
software development. We have the functional manager and the project
manager, the scrum master and the black belt, the product owner and the
customer-on-site, the technical leader and the architect, the product
manager and the chief engineer.

Clearly that's too many leaders. So how many leaders should there be,
what should they do, what shouldn't they do, and what skills do they need?

This will be a presentation and discussion of leadership roles in
software development -- what works, what doesn't and why.

As always, our monthly meetings are free to attend and open to local
software professionals, students and faculty. Feel free to pass this
announcement along to your colleagues.

AGENDA:
6:00 - 6:30 PM  Refreshments, networking and announcements
6:30 - 8:00 PM  Presentation

SPEAKER

Mary Poppendieck has been in the Information Technology industry for
thirty years. She has managed solutions for companies in several
disciplines, including supply chain management, manufacturing systems,
and digital media. As a seasoned leader in both operations and new
product development, she brings a practical, customer-focused approach
to software development problems.

As Information Systems Manager in a video tape manufacturing plant, Mary
first encountered the Toyota Production System, which later became known
as Lean Production. She implemented one of the first Just-in-Time
systems in 3M, resulting in dramatic improvements in the plant's
performance.

Three times Mary has partnered with small companies, twice negotiating
and funding a multi-million dollar equity investment. But understanding
small companies from the investor point of view was not enough; so she
joined one of the start-ups to lead its R&D effort.

A popular writer and speaker, Mary’s classes on managing software
development offer a fresh perspective on project management. Her book
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, was published in 2003 and
won the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004.  A sequel,
Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash, was
published in 2006.

For more information on Mary and her work see http://www.poppendieck.com

SPONSORS

The November 2007 meeting is Mountain Goat Software. See
http://mountaingoatsoftware.com for more information about this
Colorado-based process and project management consultancy and training
firm. Offering Certified ScrumMaster, agile estimating and planning,
user story, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and other courses to help
companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques
in order to build extremely high performance development organizations.

Our on campus sponsor for this event is the Department of Mathematical
and Computer Sciences at Metropolitan State College of Denver
(http://cs.mscd.edu). Contact Dr. Jody Paul (jody@...) with any
questions regarding similar sponsorship for technical user groups.

DIRECTIONS

The meeting will be held on the Auraria Campus, within walking distance
of Downtown Denver via Larimer Street crossing Speer. Driving in from
I-25 south take the Colfax exit. Coming from I-25 north, the Speer exit
is most convenient.

We are currently scheduled to be in Room KC 313. Please note that this
is room #313 in the King Center (KC) and not the Tivoli where we met in
September. The King Center building is directly to the SW of the Tivoli,
and also faces the Tivoli Lot for visitor parking.

You can review or print out the parking map below for reference and
driving directions from the Auraria Parkway or Colfax Avenue.

      http://www.ahec.edu/parking/ParkingMap07color.jpg

Parking on site costs $5 to attendees of our event and there should be
parking available in the lots off of Auraria Parkway and Ninth Street.
Be sure to mention that you are attending an on campus event otherwise
they might assume you are there for a sports event.


A G I L E  D E N V E R
www.agiledenver.org

Hello

Join Rally software for a  two-day ScrumMaster certification course
provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. One of the
largest and fastest-growing Agile project management methodologies,
Scrum is a simple software management technique that has a small set
of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive and
is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams
almost immediately.

Delivered by Certified ScrumMaster trainers, this course shares time-
tested practices for managing product backlogs, planning your
releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting
progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings,
daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more!

Course Details: http://www.agileuniversity.org/course_certified.jsp

* Certified ScrumMaster certification
* 16 PDUs towards PMI continuing certification requirements
* Membership in Scrum Alliance
* Printed certificate of completion
* Breakfast, lunch and snacks

Course Dates & Locations:

11/15/07 - 11/16/07
Boulder, CO
Rally Software Development Headquarters
Hubert Smits
Rally Software

12/05/07 - 12/06/07
San Jose, CA
Microtek Facility
Rally Software

12/11/07 - 12/12/07
Waltham, MA
Forefront Center for Meetings & Conferences, 404 Wyman Street
Waltham, Massachusetts 02451
Rally Software

12/13/07 - 12/14/07
Boulder, CO
Rally Software Development Headquarters
Jean Tabaka
Rally Software

Thanks!
Jennifer Beaupre
Agile University
720.221.0296 v
303-226-1179 f

Please come and join us at the PPA Event Center on October 19 as Net
Objectives presents a mini-conference titled "Effective Software
Development Using Lean-Agile From Teams to Enterprises." Below is
more information on this special day, and to learn even more go to
http://tinyurl.com/2prjz3.

Overview:

Join us in a one day excursion through the world of Lean-Agile
Software Development. We start with an Introduction to "draw the map"
which you will follow, embark from Where to Start, navigate the Value
Stream and the role of Scrum, explore Design Patterns, Effective User
Stories, and Test-Driven Development. Whether you are a member of a
team that is in a small company, or one person out of hundreds on
enterprise projects, this one day investment of time will give you a
solid foundation for increasing the effectiveness of you, your team
and your organization.

Presenters include founder, CEO and noted author, Alan Shalloway, VP
of Business Development and Marketing, Bob Hartman, and Senior
Consultant Jean McAuliffe.

The six sessions to be presented are:

1. Introduction to Lean-Agile Software Development
2. Lean-Agile Software Development: Where to Start
3. Value Stream Mapping - Why Scrum (and Agile) are not enough
4. Effective User Stories
5. Design Patterns Explained: From Analysis to Implementation
6. Emergent Design: Refactoring and Design Patterns for Agile
Development

Please plan to join us for this unique event. Spend a day learning
how to move to the next step beyond straight agile development. For
more information, or to register, please go to
http://tinyurl.com/2prjz3.

We hope to see you on October 19!

Agile Denver will be meeting next Tuesday, October 16 at the PPA Event
Center located near Downtown Denver and I-25. Please see below for
further details. We will host guest speaker Alan Shalloway, founder and
CEO of Net Objectives.

Agile Methods are now the next big thing. As well they should be. Agile
methods enable a team to be more productive, write higher quality code
and give better visibility to management about how things are going.
With all of this going for it, you may not need a business case for
agility. Fortunately, there is a strong one. It comes from the
principles of Lean Software Development.

Lean Software Development is essentially applying the principles of Lean
Manufacturing and Lean Product Development in the Software Development
World. Mary and Tom Poppendieck put forth 7 principles of lean software
development in their seminal text: Lean Software Development: An Agile
Toolkit for Software Development Managers. These 7 principles are:

1. optimize the whole
2. eliminate waste
3. build quality in
4. deliver fast
5. defer commitment
6. create knowledge
7. respect people

One of the underlying principles of Lean is to add value to the customer
quickly. Agile methods have the capacity to do that. This seminar starts
off with explaining how delivering 80% of the value of a system can
often be done in 20% of the time – and why you should do that if you can.

The seminar starts by presenting five reasons for Agile development:

1. Adding value quickly to the customer
2. Getting clarity on customer needs
3. Increasing visibility of project progress to management
4. Assisting the team in transitioning to Agile methods
5. Writing the code with better quality

The seminar continues by showing how the principles of Lean Software
Development create an effective environment for developing software in
stages. It also discusses how software development is mostly like
product development and how the lean principles support this. The
seminar concludes by showing how Lean principles can guide product
portfolio management to increase productivity while ensuring the
enterprise is working on the most useful products.

The target audience for this talk includes management, business
analysts, team leads, and architects, as well as developers and QA
professionals.

As always, our monthly meetings are free to attend and open to local
software professionals, students and faculty. Feel free to pass this
announcement along to your colleagues.

AGENDA:

5:30 - 6:30 PM  Refreshments, networking and announcements
6:30 - 8:00 PM  Panel discussion

SPEAKER

Alan Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With almost 40
years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader, trainer and
coach in the areas of Lean Software Development, The Lean-Agile
Connection and using Design Patterns in agile environments. Alan has
developed training and coaching methods for Lean-Agile that have helped
his clients achieve long-term, sustainable productivity gains using the
methods. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide as
well as a trainer/coach. He is the primary author of Design Patterns
Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design and is currently
writing Lean Anti-Patterns and What to do About Them. He is a CSM
Trainer and has a Masters in Computer Science from M.I.T.

SPONSORS

The October 2007 meeting sponsor is Net Objectives. Net Objectives'
vision is to help you achieve effective software development without
suffering. Net Objectives assists companies in maximizing the business
value returned from their efforts in software development and
maintenance. They do this by providing quality training, coaching, and
consulting that both directly assists and empowers you to create and
sustain this ability.

DIRECTIONS

We will be meeting at the PPA Event Center near downtown Denver. The
Event Center address is 2105 Decatur Street, Denver, Colorado 80211.
Parking is free and their is a nearby bus stop that is a 10 minute bus
ride from downtown. For directions see the MapQuest link or the PPA site
below, or call (303) 433-8247 for additional details.

http://tinyurl.com/2ntynq (map)

http://www.dppa.com/EventCenter/Directions.htm


A G I L E  D E N V E R
www.agiledenver.org

Hello, Niraj.  On Tuesday, September 25, 2007, at 9:16:47 AM, you
wrote:

> Diaspar Software and Thoughtworks is proud to present another
> installment of the XP Day North America series: XP Day Manhattan
> taking place on October 13, 2007.

I'd just like you and J.B. to know that I am now consigning /all/
email from you to my trash folder. It's going to make it difficult
for me to support XP Days and such, but I can think of no better
alternative. Sorry about that.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
I'm giving the best advice I have. You get to decide whether it's true for you.

Agile Denver will be meeting on Monday, September 24 at the Tivoli on
the Auraria Campus. This is our first time at this location, but it
appears to be very conveniently located, across Speer from Downtown
Denver and near to I-25.

We will host six panelists who attended and presented at the recent
Agile 2007 conference: Lisa Crispin, Michele Sliger, Ken Goodhew, Ronica
Roth and Aaron Ruhnow. They will share their experiences and what they
learned, as well as be open to questions from the audience.

Coming from diverse backgrounds of Agile development, testing and
management -- there will be something for anyone involved in Agile to
learn. If other attendees were at the conference, we might convert to a
fishbowl format to include them.

As always, our monthly meetings are free to attend and open to local
software professionals, students and faculty. Feel free to pass this
announcement along to your colleagues.

AGENDA:

5:30 - 6:00 PM  Refreshments, networking and announcements
6:00 - 8:00 PM  Panel discussion

SPONSORS

The September 2007 meeting sponsor is Mountain Goat Software/ See
http://mountaingoatsoftware.com for more information about this
Colorado-based process and project management consultancy and training
firm. Offering Certified ScrumMaster, agile estimating and planning,
user story, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and other courses to help
companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques
in order to build extremely high performance development organizations.

DIRECTIONS

The meeting will be held in Tivoli 320AB on the third floor. The Tivoli
is located on the Auraria Campus, across Speer from Downtown Denver.

Parking on site costs $5 to attendees of our event. Make sure you
mention you are attending an on campus event otherwise they might assume
you are there for a Pepsi Center event. Detailed parking and room
directions will be posted on our web site later this week. We hope to
use this location for our meeting in November and future meetings.


A G I L E  D E N V E R
www.agiledenver.org

Diaspar Software is proud to present another installment of the XP Day
North America series: XP Day Manhattan taking place on October 13, 2007.

The focus of XP Day is to bring top extreme programming practitioners
to North American XP communities to share their successes, failures
and perspectives on how to release high-value software sooner.

Our program for Manhattan includes:

1)A keynote address by Steve Freeman. Steve is a fixture in the London
software development community, a regular organizer of the original XP
Day, well known for his contributions to test-driven development
practice and co-recipient of the 2006 Gordon Pask Award.

2)A tutorial by JB Rainsberger, a recipient of the 2005 Gordon Pask
award. JB will talk about why XP works using the Theory of Constraints
model developed by Goldratt.

3)A tutorial by George Dinwiddie, a respected member of the XP
community, and author of an insightful blog about coaching XP teams:
http://blog.gdinwiddie.com. George will talk about sustainability at
multiple levels in XP.

4)Open Space. There's plenty of room, the space is superbly run and
the conversation is lively.  Collaborate intensively with both local
and invited advanced practitioners on issues that interest you most.

Cost of the conference is $249 USD and includes breakfast and lunch.
Registration is limited to 100 attendees.  To register visit
http://www.xpday.info.  For group rates, contact me at the address
provided in the header of this message.

Check out the following links for pics of our last conference:
http://tinyurl.com/2ysz6v and http://tinyurl.com/23ktwx

Thanks for reading,
Niraj.

Hello

I wanted to let you know about an upcoming course in Boulder called
Agile Estimation and Planning.  This will be held at the Rally Software
Development Headquarters on August 14th through August 16th.  In this
three day intensive course, all participants will learn proven
techniques for planning and estimating agile projects at the daily,
iteration, and release level.

For more information:  www.agileuniversity.org

Thanks
jennifer
info@...

On Monday, June 25th, Agile Denver will host guest speakers Jean Tabaka
and Ryan Martens. They will present a sneak preview of their "Agile
Enterprise Rollout -- The Greening of the Software Industry" tutorial
scheduled for the sold out Agile 2007 conference in August. The meeting
will be held at the PPA Event Center near Downtown Denver. The doors
will open at 6:00pm for networking and refreshments.

During the 20th century, many materials-based industries, such as
manufacturing and high technology, relied on a Take-Make-Waste model of
product development, delivery and selling. But a 21st century
perspective on a growing scarcity of resources and the expense of waste
has led such industries to revisit their Take-Make-Waste way of doing
business. A "back to the resource-usage drawing board" has led to an
emerging trend toward what are known as Green Businesses; that is
businesses in which waste is viewed as a drain on the economy and
innovation of the business.

In contrast, the software industry has considered itself immune to the
criticisms of waste associated with the Take-Make-Waste model of product
delivery. We are knowledge workers: we apply our knowledge as our
resource and create digital output as our product. No "taking" on the
front end, and no "waste" on the back end as a result of our "making".

However, a bit of closer scrutiny under this non-waste "sheep skin"
reveals some uncomfortable truths. To stem this model of waste and
poison for a more sustainable 21st century model, the software industry
has an opportunity to lead in the greening of the High Technology
industry. But to do so, it must recalibrate its definition of product
development, delivery and marketing.

Existing patterns of practices established for classic Green Businesses
are a useful starting point for such work. For the software industry,
this translates to the following three software-based trends of a
zero-waste model: deliver Software as a Service (SaaS); apply Agile
Software Development for sustainable flow of value; and rely on Social
Networks for product uptake.

Adopting these new practices of doing software business may prove
daunting. Enterprise Adoption of Agile software development provides
both the culture of discipline and planned in innovation necessary to
transition to this new paradigm for the industry. Their Agile Enterprise
Roadmap creates such a path of Agile Software Development adoption. This
in turn guides organizations to a successful adoption of the SaaS
delivery and social network promotion and support.

In this preview of their Agile 2007 Tutorial, Jean and Ryan present
their premise around the necessity of the greening of the software
industry and the trends such a transition requires. They will outline a
3-stage Enterprise Agile Rollout approach for adopting Agile practices
that directly attack the Take-Make-Waste model.

As always the meeting is open to the local technology professionals and
academia. Feel free to forward this announcement to colleagues, and
visit our website at http://www.agiledenver.org for additional
information on Agile events and resources.


AGENDA:

6:00 - 6:30 PM  Refreshments, networking and announcements

6:30 - 8:00 PM  Feature presentation


SPEAKERS

Jean Tabaka - Agile Coach, Rally Software

Jean Tabaka is a Certified ScrumMaster Trainer and Professional
Facilitator with over 25 years of experience in the software development
industry. She has navigated numerous plan-driven methodologies in a
variety of contexts and roles, and her move to agile software
development approaches came in the late 90's as a result of studying
DSDM in the UK. Jean is the author of the book "Collaboration Explained:
Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders" published in the
Addison-Wesley Agile Software Development Series and holds a Masters
degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Ryan Martens - Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Rally Software

Ryan Martens is an expert in helping organizations transition from
traditional development processes to more Agile techniques. Before
founding Rally, Ryan directed the corporate adoption of Internet
technologies within Qwest Communications, and then moved on to co-found
Avitek, which culminated in an acquisition by BEA Systems in 1999. Ryan
is also involved in a variety of community boards including Colorado
Conservation Trust, Entrepreneurs' Foundation of Colorado and the Agile
Alliance. Ryan received his Masters degree in Business Administration
and his Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of
Colorado at Boulder.


SPONSOR

The June 2007 meeting is sponsored by Rally Software.

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  From an initial pilot project to enterprise rollout, Rally helps
companies succeed with Agile software development. Rally's family of
Agile life cycle management products give teams the visibility and
collaboration needed to deliver high-value software in rapid iterations,
and its world-renowned coaching services help mentor teams to create
internal Agile experts. Based in Boulder, Colo., Rally maps an
incremental road to Agile adoption for thousands of subscribers from
leading software vendors, Internet companies and corporate development
teams.

For more information, visit www.rallydev.com.

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DIRECTIONS

We will be meeting at the PPA Event Center near downtown Denver. The
Event Center address is 2105 Decatur Street, Denver, Colorado 80211.
Parking is free and their is a nearby bus stop that is a 10 minute bus
ride from downtown. For directions see the MapQuest link or the PPA site
below, or call (303) 433-8247 for additional details.

http://tinyurl.com/2ntynq (map)

http://www.dppa.com/EventCenter/Directions.htm


. A G I L E D E N V E R .

http://www.agiledenver.org